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  1. So, I saw a piece about the #Taos #Earthship community late last night on #VeryLocal (unfortunately, I can't find any video link as yet). However, I did find a piece from 2024 about them...

    "This summer’s extreme heat and the demand for air conditioning are putting a big strain on the electricity grid in many parts of the nation. But for more than 40 years, a pioneering architect in New Mexico has been building a unique kind of home that can be heated and cooled without using any electricity at all. Special Correspondent Megan Thompson reports."

    youtube.com/watch?v=a_ZTiocr3LU

    #SolarPunkSunday #SustainableBuilding #Communities #TaosNewMexico #Earthships

  2. @Iragersh @bsmall2 oh so you're looking for a one-size-fits-all solution. interesting. a "sustainable urban lifestyle" in NYC wouldn't work for me in rural Vermont. However many aspects of my lifestyle are sustainable, low impact and renewable. I use nature as my measure. (in the ways that Wes Jackson and Wendell Berry teach). The vision of an #Earthship is to be sustainable and to meet the needs of that place -making each unique. So, for example, the one on Puerto Rico is hurricane proof, solar, multiple water collection & filtration receptacles and is surrounded by a food forest and gardens that grow native foods. it uses the cooler air from the ground to cool the living spaces. which is so important all year in a tropical climate. the specifics of that wouldn’t be useful to many places off the island/outside of a tropical climate. but the bigger ideas would be

    the most impressive feature of the earthship design, IMO, is #bioarchitecture. they are built using trash/recycling and other non traditional materials. there is some real forward thinking around bio architecture that can be used in many different climates so i’d imagine in urban and rural places too.

    thx for sharing your thoughts!

  3. Biosphere, the biotic and abiotic ecosphere.

    These are the voyages of the planet Earth.

    Its continuing orbit around a bright yellow dwarf star, to evolve new life forms and new civilizations, to "boldly" go around where it.........? erm? went around before.

    #space #Biosphere #ecosphere #ecology #biotic #abiotic #cosmos #cosmology #EarthShip #starship #stars #earth #planet #evolution #civilisation #species #music #startrek #comedy #education

  4. > ".. walking down the hallway of my building, picking bananas and spinach and kale and tomatoes and eating them. Barefoot, because my building was warm without fuel,” Reynolds said. “My #Earthship took care of me.”
    > #Earthships are off-grid, self-reliant houses built from tires, dirt and garbage that have long been an offbeat curiosity for travelers passing by the ski town of Taos, but suddenly look like a haven for climate doomers.washingtonpost.com/climate-sol
    #MikeReynolds #EcoHouse #TireHouse

  5. Currently peeling cocoa nibs that we harvested at an #earthship commune in #PuertoRico and #listeningtonow #BogdanRaczynski whomst I just discovered cause Ariel Pink is apparently a fascist now bogdanraczynski.bandcamp.com/a